Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands. [1] Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the Thirty Years War, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters. [2]
Career
Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the University of Birmingham. [3]
On 11 August 2016 Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford. [4]
Selected publications
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al.
- Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015).
- 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
- The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)
References
External links
- Dr. Nadine Akkerman: literary historian, author, and educator
- Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture 2023 - Nadine Akkerman: Archival pursuits: unediting lives and letters
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Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands. [1] Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the Thirty Years War, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters. [2]
Career
Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the University of Birmingham. [3]
On 11 August 2016 Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford. [4]
Selected publications
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al.
- Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015).
- 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
- The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)
References
External links
- Dr. Nadine Akkerman: literary historian, author, and educator
- Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture 2023 - Nadine Akkerman: Archival pursuits: unediting lives and letters
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| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |